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This blog will act as my own genealogical sharing and as a working site for client research. Please feel free to write with your genealogical questions. I will try to help lead you in the right direction and tell you when it is time to hire some help.

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Yes, I read lots of non-fiction, not as much recently as I would like. Mostly early American History, but I have another (of many) interes...

Friday, August 11, 2017

The Dead Files

Recently, I was hired to do some time sensitive research for the Travel Channel program "The Dead Files". While I can't discuss the details until after the program airs, sometime in December or January, it was a thrilling chase! Unfortunately, I was slated to appear on the show with Steve Dischiavi, but the research segment they had chosen to film got scrapped. It happens....

Before this I had never seen an episode of this show, so I did a cram viewing session. As you can see by my other posts on serendipity I have a leaning toward paranormal belief. The show is quite thorough at background genealogy and history research whether you are a believer or skeptic.

The one indisputable thing that I found eerie is how each house has proven unusual deaths, usually many over generations. For me, I felt a sense of these souls needing their stories to be told. This is what happens to me so very often. It was surprising to find I didn't feel uncomfortable at all with this research on unusual deaths, quite the contrary, my detective radar is still working on more findings.